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How?
How does one grow spiritually? How do you grow when others around you seem to take pleasure in knocking you down? Drain you of your energy, so it feels like there is nothing left to give to your...
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Because
Because sometimes a dainty teacup and single piece of biscotti just will not do.Have a lovely weekend, friends.
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Show Them
Catechism for a Witch's ChildWhen they ask to see your godsyour book of prayersshow them linesdrawn delicately with veinson the underside of a bird's wingtell them you believein giant sycamores...
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Comfort
This has been a week of baking. Cookies, brownies, muffins, sweet breads, savory breads. The muffins have been sent to school with the girls for their mid-morning snacks, cookies as an after-school...
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It's Official
This was the weekend to search for the perfect tree. And, by perfect, I mean never pruned, a completely wonky shape and gaps between branches. This is my favorite day of the holiday season. When we...
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Challenged
I always knew I wanted to be a woman that aged gracefully, comfortable with every wrinkle, gray hair, sag in skin. A wise crone. I'm not high maintenance. I never was and I don't want to be. There...
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Silence
The recent loss of life and innocencehave left me deeply saddened and silent.As my children begin their winter break from school, for the next couple of weeks I'll be taking a break of my own from much...
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Final Days
Last winter we went the entire season with only a few dustings of snow. This year, barely a week into winter and we've had two storms leaving us with over a foot of snow! There has been a lot of...
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Dreaming and Wishing
Is it too soon to start dreaming and wishing for summer? It's not that I hate winter. Hate is such a strong word. There are bits of winter that I enjoy. The calmness you feel while watching snow...
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The Wise Owl
a wise old owl lived in an oak;the more he saw, the less he spoke;the less he spoke, the more he heard;why can't we all be like that wise old bird?a new medium - soft sculpture. on a separate...
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Lately
There has been snow, dinner with beautiful friends, no phone or internet for days (joys of country life), a cat discovering the window bird feeder, the arrival of brutally freezing temperatures, a sick...
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Start Simple
It's hard to remind myself sometimes, when thoughts, ideas, images are flooding in. Journal pages get filled. Scrap papers with quick sketches are littered through the house as another idea comes...
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Hare, Hare
A week of extreme freezing temperatures has me longing for Spring more than usual. The rabbits have arrived here. An old linen shirt was turned into a wall hanging for the girls' room. Here it's the...
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Fill Them Up
So much time is spent doing - laundry, dishes, sweeping and vacuuming, dusting, cooking, tending to three kids. No matter how much you get done, it always comes back to do all over again the next day....
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Stitches
Fabrics collected over time, always drawn to blues. Some thrifted, some vintage, each with their own stories woven in with each thread. Stories that I'll never know but always imagine what they would...
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Moss and Ferns
Stitched a green fern on a piece of vintage flour sack. Haven't decided what to do with it yet. Perhaps a patch for another project.Went looking for moss, clinging to trees and not covered by...
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Weekend
The weekend was a 3-day one, with the kids home from school on Friday due to the snow. Luckily we didn't get as much as was predicted.The watercolors stayed out for most of the weekend. Little Bird...
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Winter Morning
It's never been a secret how much I would rather be enjoying the warm days of summer. But, even I'm not immune to beauty of a winter morning.Stepping into the kitchen for that second cup of coffee,...
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Random Thoughts
~ Hoping to begin restoring the orchard in the spring. We lost more than half of our fruit trees a few years ago during a heavy ice storm, and the ones that remain are old, unmaintained, and not very...
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Wish
free-hand stitching on recycled linenAfter 13 years of wishing, it's finally coming true. A new kitchen!This weekend the demolition of the old kitchen began. The house is a mess. The dust is...
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